Millions Shots: exhibition

Photographer Justin Bettman Creates Sets From Discarded Furniture On NYC’s Streets

I love this post by IGNANT.de! New York photographer Justin Bettman and stylist Gozde Eker have created unique sets right on the sidewalks of New York City inviting everyone to shoot their own photos and share them on instagram with the hashtag #setinthestreet. One of their more recent sets that they built was created for one of their followers Jose Luis who wrote to Justin asking him to build a set so that he could propose to his girlfriend. View the video of the coverage of the event.

Justin Bettman recently built a set for Jose Luis who wrote him a hopeful email saying that he wanted to propose to his girlfriend in one of his sets. View the making-of video for this memorable moment below.

Credits

IGNANT http://www.ignant.de/2015/04/17/justin-bettman-setinthestreet/

Miniaturesque: New Exhibition by Slinkachu Launches At Andipa Gallery

Credit: Made in Shoreditch Magazine, 10th March 2015, Art & Culture

Great exhibition...that I would love to get the plane ticket and fly to London to see it with my own eye. It's very elegant and love how Slinkachu set up the composition of the miniaturesque to photograph the scenes...very creative.

Miniaturesque, a major new exhibition by Slinkachu, will launch at Andipa Gallery on 12th March 2015. Shot in London during different seasons over the past year, Slinkachu’s new body of work draws upon our desire to seek out and recreate the natural world amongst the urban metropolis. His miniature people, photographed on the streets of London and then left in situ – or “abandoned” – by the artist, explore the hidden enclaves of the wild within our city. Slinkachu captures idyllic glades and green pastures, in reality weeds and moss that appear through cracks in the concrete, and comment on our modern society’s detachment from nature.

Using tropes from art and popular culture, Slinkachu’s new works employ irony, humour and a healthy dose of reality; despite their fantastical situations, the miniature figures we observe are not so dissimilar to ourselves, living in the shadows between the real and artificial.

Miniaturesque will feature seventeen new images on paper and aluminium as well as new sculptural pieces, one of which is Slinkachu’s biggest yet featuring over 200 miniature figures in a recreation of The River Thames.